Jeff Deist discusses the idea that the best path forward for America may be some kind of peaceful breakup. He reminds us that America has never truly been one country, the way that, for instance, many small European nations are—and indeed the United States was never...
Constitution
When Will Americans Realize They Aren’t ‘One Nation’?
It’s one thing for mass democracy to produce bad results, in the form of elected politicians or enacted policies. It’s another when the democratic process itself breaks down because nobody trusts the vote or the people who count it. But that’s precisely where we are....
Gun Control and Racism: The Laws and Taxes Meant to Limit Minority Gun Ownership in America
“There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control.” Stacy Swimp, President of the Frederick Douglass Society Every schoolchild knows that the Declaration of Independence declares that the basic equality of man is “self-evident.” The United...
Cultural Superiority Isn’t Racism: Why Western Values Underpin the World’s Best Countries
A view of Western culture as being uniquely valuable is radically different from racism.
Who’s Racist? The Continuing Tragedy of American Exceptionalism
Many young liberals truly believe that by voting for Joe Biden they’re somehow helping evict racism and fascism from the Oval Office. If only it were that easy. This columnist is thinking, in particular, of an illustrative, albeit anecdotal example. A recent...
Kamala Harris Says ‘We All End Up in the Same Place’
Recently Kamala Harris tweeted a video where she's talking nonsense about "equity" and "equality" -- pandering to the left's progressives -- which ends with her saying, “equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place." End up at the same place. Well, it's...
The False Dichotomy of Voting
A false dichotomy is when one is presented with two options as if those were the only options. American presidential elections present voters with a false dichotomy. This election, we are led to believe that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the only real options for the...
The American People’s Justified Cynicism
“The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism,” declared former president Barack Obama two years ago. But as we enter the final days of another demagoguery-drenched presidential campaign, it is time to give cynicism the credit it deserves. In an era of clueless...
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